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containing a large number of very young or very old people the rate
would be considerably higher than in a district containing a larger
proportion of people of middle age.
There is, therefore, calculated by the Registrar-General from the
Government Census returns, a corrective factor for each district in
the County of London, according to the sex and age distribution of
the population of that district; the multiplication of the recorded
death-rate of the district by this factor gives the death-rate which
would obtain in that district if the sex and age distribution of the
population of the district were in the same proportions as it is in the
country as a whole— thus eliminating the accidental differences due
to sex and age and affording a fair means of comparison, and a truer
test of the healthiness of the district. The death-rate so ascertained
is known as the corrected death-rate.
The so-called "factor for correction" for the Borough of Stoke
Newington is 1.0438, and the death-rate corrected for age and sex
distribution is 12.2 X 1.0438, 12.7 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths of nonresidents,
who have died in Public Institutions within the Borough
have, of course, been excluded.
The rate is not so satisfactory as during the two preceding years.
The death-rate for the whole of London was 13.8.
During the third quarter of the year the death-rate in Stoke
Newington was 8.7. There was only one Borough within the
Metropolitan area which furnished a lower death-rate and that was
Hampstead with a rate of 6.1, so that the death-rate for the Borough
of Stoke Newington was the second lowest within the Metropolis.
The death-rate during the third quarter of the year was exceptionally
low for the whole country, and in considering the low deathrate
of Stoke Newington for the quarter in question regard must be